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news
[ nooz, nyooz ]
noun
, (usually used with a singular verb)
- a report of a recent event; intelligence; information:
His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months.
- such reports taken collectively; information reported:
There's good news tonight.
- a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material. Compare copy ( def 5 ).
news
/ njuːz /
noun
- current events; important or interesting recent happenings
- information about such events, as in the mass media
- a presentation, such as a radio broadcast, of information of this type
the news is at six
- ( in combination )
a newscaster
- interesting or important information not previously known or realized
it's news to me
- a person, fashion, etc, widely reported in the mass media
she is no longer news in the film world
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Derived Forms
- ˈnewsless, adjective
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Other Words From
- newsless adjective
- newsless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of news1
C15: from Middle English newes, plural of newe new ( adj ) on model of Old French noveles or Medieval Latin nova new things
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Idioms and Phrases
see bad news ; break the news ; no news is good news .Discover More
Example Sentences
The turn-of-the-century stretch that yielded The Rainbow Children and N.E.W.S. is particularly easy to ignore.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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